Reading Time: 3 minutes“Before you fling your righteousness across cyberspace, hoping for humble deference to your superior intellect, let us explore a crucial dimension to your online interaction,” writes Eric Dicaire a recent University of Ottawa graduate.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Fulcrum is looking for an Associate Features Editor (AFE) to join our team for the 2020-21 publication year.Deadline to apply is Sept.28 Please submit a resume, cover letter, and one unedited long-form feature sample that reflect your skill as a feature writer to editor@thefulcrum.ca
Reading Time: 4 minutes Live from the Archives this week goes back to 2011 when Jane Lytvynenko (a Fulcrum contributor at the time now Buzzfeed’s misinformation reporter) wrote about students barricading themselves in the SFUO office to protest the disqualification of a candidate for VP finance due to his campaign producing misinformation.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Aug.7, 2020 the Fulcrum published an editorial encouraging incoming students to forego living in residence. I would like to take this opportunity to provide additional information on the heels of the article that was shared,” writes Rachelle Clark in response to the Fulcrum’s editorial ‘Don’t live in Residence this fall if you don’t have to.’
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor the first time in its storied history, the University of Ottawa will offer the majority of its courses online this fall, meaning the presence of most students on campus is not necessary. Financially for most students, this is great news as they won’t have to rent an apartment or live in residence but if you’re an incoming student and still on the fence about whether or not you should come to campus and live in residence, here’s the case for staying home.
Reading Time: 4 minutesLive from the archives this week goes back to 2002 when the SFUO pulled the plugged on its struggling bar “The Nox” after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars due to high rent and strong off-campus competition notably by Father’s and Sons. The Nox was replaced by the 1848 student bar a couple of years later.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLive from the archives this week goes back to 1987 when graduate students had enough of the SFUO and voted almost unanimously in favour of separating from the student federation.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Jays are in flight for a very different 2020 season due to COVID-19. The MLB a usually very conservative league has taken advantage of the pandemic to try out new rules and a new playoff format. It’s still unknown if the MLB will be able to complete its ambitious 60-game 2020 season but one thing for sure baseball has changed.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week we go back to 1996, when boy bands, Britpop and Gangsta Rap ruled the airwaves and the University of Ottawa accepted donations from questionable sources.
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd’s death have made it clear change is inevitable. But that change needs to also benefit and include Black womxn.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa will match every donation up to $25,000 made to the University of Ottawa Students’ Union and Black Student Leaders Association Black Expression :Listen. Speak. Amplify broadcast. The broadcast aims to celebrate Black artists as well as Black excellence and talent.
Reading Time: 5 minutesEditorial: Professors and Faculties should take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to develop innovative ways to evaluate students in their courses instead of relying on invasive proctoring software to monitor traditional multiple-choices exams.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe University of Ottawa has released a new set of guidelines for students planning to live in residence this fall. The new guidelines aim to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in residence, however, the new guidelines are confusing incoming residents and have raised concerns among them.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLocal restaurants have been forced to adapt to a number of stringent regulations to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 as they reopen in stage two of Ontario’s reopening plan. For some though, these regulations seem exaggerated and restrictive as restaurants aren’t allowed to open their inside dining area and are thus dependent on the weather and cannot guarantee shifts to a number of their employees notably servers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYvan Mongo, a Black hockey player on the University of Ottawa men’s hockey team, along with his head coach, Patrick Grandmaitre, has created a special club called “Mongo’s Brave Buddies” that aims to help young BIPOC hockey players.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe University of Ottawa will allow professors to use the Respondus Lockdown Browser to conduct online exams. Meant to combat academic fraud the software has raised a number of accessibility and privacy concerns among students. The software is also detected as malware by some antivirus software and may not be effective at all in combating academic fraud.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union has created the COVID-19 Hardship Fund (CHF) to help students who “demonstrate urgent financial need.” The fund aims to especially alleviate the financial strain on international students who are ineligible for either the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) or the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB).
Reading Time: 3 minutes “To encourage the use of masks, we must tear down any built-up social stigma against mask use in times of risk,” writes Rhyanna Melanson, a class of 2020 biology graduate.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe security guard who carded Black University of Ottawa student Wiliston Mason in September 2019 will no longer be permitted on campus in a security role, according to a letter obtained by the Fulcrum. The security will be permitted to return to campus in other capacities.
Reading Time: 6 minutes“The University of Ottawa has to stop asking students to reach out about their mental health struggles when they won’t listen to what they have to say. Instead of being asked to reach out, students need an official system where they can share their experiences,” writes Kimberley Paradis, a fourth-year computer engineering student at the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMembers of the Support Staff of the University of Ottawa union are set to vote in a forced final offer vote next week to accept or reject a “final offer” made by the University of Ottawa. According to the PSUO-SSUO’s vice president, the offer fails to address issues such as unfulfilled vacancies, the hiring of more academic advisors and mental health workers.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s administration will email 615 ballots to undergraduate students who previously did not receive a ballot to vote in the BOG undergraduate student representative election and partial U of O Senate elections that took place on June 2 to 4.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“While I have no doubts that the creators of the petition mean well, this particular issue reminds me of a similar call to action for mandatory Indigenous content courses in universities. Many of the issues raised in this regard also apply to these suggested mandatory anti-racism courses. Primarily, these mandatory courses could actually foster the toxic spaces they are meant to mitigate,” writes Sam Yee a third-year biomedical sciences and Indigenous studies student at the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 4 minutesEditorial: As the independent news outlet of the university, we do our best to hold the U of O administration and UOSU accountable, but we need students to stand behind us – that includes voting.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa researchers Kimberly Mitchell and Vance Trudeau have discovered a new hormone in zebrafish that could help combat human infertility. The researchers were accompanied by a group of students who observed Zebrafish mating patterns and were instrumental in completing the project.
